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Full description: U.S. Army 3rd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, convoy with UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters to Operation Tandem Hydra at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, on Dec. 3, 2024. 4th CAB conducted live fire operations with 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment as part of support with ground forces which built relationships with peak partners. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Robert Spaulding)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Hutsul_Rifle_Regiment

On the night of September 15/16, 1939, the 49th Hutsul Rifle Regiment and the 98th Infantry Regiment (38. Reserve ID) attacked parts of the SS-Standarte Germania, which was stationed in the villages of Przelbice, Muzylowice, Mogiła and Czarnokonce. The SS had been ordered to close the roads leading east and prevent Polish troops from reaching Lwów. It has been established that in Muzylowice, where the main Polish attack took place, the following German units were stationed: the regiment's HQ, 3rd. battalion and support subunits. To catch the SS by surprise, Colonel Hodala and Colonel Bronisław Prugar-Ketling (commandant of the 11th Carpathian Infantry Division) ordered their soldiers to unload their rifles and use bayonets.

After 30-minutes of fierce hand-to-hand combat, which started at 9 pm, the Germans suffered heavy casualties, with at least 205 KIA and WIA. The commander of the III battalion SS-Obersturmbannführer Willy Koeppen and the regiment's aide-de-camp SS-Obersturmführer Schomburg were among those killed by bayonets. The regiment's HQ fled to Jaworów and German soldiers scattered in panic across the area. Several prisoners were taken and the SS lost almost all of its heavy equipment, including 16 75mm artillery pieces, 8 105mm artillery pieces, 15 AT guns, the majority of mortars, plus all vehicles (20 armored vehicles and transporters, 70 motorcycles, 50 trucks and cars).

Full description: U.S. Army Rangers, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, conduct a live fire exercise during the 2024 International Best Mortar Competition at Fort Moore, Ga., April 11, 2024. The 2024 International Best Mortar Competition, April 7-11, highlights the capabilities of mortar crews and gives spectators an inside-look at combat tactics, techniques, procedures. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Paul Won)

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Full description: Marines watch the commissioning ceremony for the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Basilone (DDG 122) in New York City Nov. 9, 2024. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

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https://www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/historic-asat-test-3/

Twenty-nine years ago this week, the USAF/LTV ASM-135 anti-satellite missile successfully intercepted a target satellite orbiting 300 nautical miles above the Earth. The test was the first and only time that an aircraft-launched missile successfully engaged and destroyed an orbiting spacecraft.

https://x.com/USN_Submariner/status/1849480328118739010

An MH-60R Seahawk helicopter from the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strike Squadron HSM 41 "Sea Hawks" conducts a joint exercise with the Peruvian diesel-electric submarine BAP Pisagua (SS 33). The exercise, taking place off the coast of San Diego, is designed to enhance interoperability and practice anti-submarine warfare operations, furthering cooperation between the U.S. and Peruvian navies.

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A rare Vespa TAP150 scooter has been put up for sale in France. This is a unique military scooter, manufactured in a small batch. It was reported on the Rideapart website. The combat scooter was created and manufactured by the French company ASMA, which acquired a license from the Italian Vespa to manufacture motor vehicles. About 600 of these scooters were manufactured from 1956 to 1959.

The Vespa TAP150 is equipped with an American recoilless gun M20 with a caliber of 75 mm. It is capable of firing cumulative shells at 6500 m. The 145 cc engine accelerates the Vespa TAP150 to 66 km/h.

The Vespa scooter could be dropped with a parachute, so it entered service with the French airborne troops. The TAP150 crew consisted of two people - a gunner and a loader. The scooter could not fire while moving - it had to stop.

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In spite of the fourteen-nation conference, which declared at Geneva in 1962 that Laos is a neutral country, and the agreement was signed by the three fractions competing for control of the country, no real progress towards unification and pacification has been made, and fighting is continually breaking out. American sources admit that armed reconnaissance flights are made over communist-controlled Pathet Lao part of the country, in the east, along the Vietnamese border, and occasional shots are exchanged. The caption to our picture, received from Hanoi, states that it shows anti-aircraft troops of the Laotian Peoples Liberation Army, and claims they have helped to bring down 102 U.S. aircraft since 1965.

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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AFNS) -- U.S. military forces from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command wrapped up exercise Valiant Shielda 2018, Sept. 23rd, around the Marianas Island Range Complex and on Guam. Participants included the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), 15 surface ships, more than 160 aircraft and approximately 15,000 personnel from the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps.

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